Welcome to the Botanica Scotia Online exhibition

Botanica Scotia exhibition poster, featuring the Bloody Ploughman Apple watercolour painting by Mhorag Mcdowell. The exhibition takes place at the The Custom House Gallery 65 – 67 Commercial St, Edinburgh EH6 6JE 15 – 20 May 2025 10am - 4pm, 13 - 28 July V&A Dundee. There is text saying: Botanica Scotia and the SSBA present an exhibition of botanical illustration celebrating crop biodiversity in Scotland and around the world. This exhibition promotes genetic diversity challenged by monoculture, a growing population, changing climate, and habitat loss. World Botanical Art Day, 18th May 2025

The Botanica Scotia Online exhibition is a showcase for the artwork created for the Worldwide Day of Botanical Art. This work is on show along with that of 29 other countries around the world. To see the full showcase visit the BotanicalArtWorldwide 2025 Youtube Hub

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The show is also on at these two dates & locations

15 – 20 May 2025
Custom House Gallery – @customhouseleith
65 – 67 Commercial St, Edinburgh
Entry: Free

13 – 28 July 2025
V & A Dundee – @vadundee
1 Riverside Esplanade, Dundee
Entry: Free

Join us on the 18th May for the Worldwide Day of Botanical Art

What is World Botanical Art Day?

World Botanical Art Day is internationally recognised as a day celebrating botanical art and its importance over the centuries and into the contemporary age. The day celebrates the artists and illustrators who document the plants that we use and recognises the beauty of our natural environment and the interdependent ecosystems that surround us on this planet.

On the 18th of May 2025, Botanica Scotia, celebrates World Botanical Art Day with artists from around the world at our exhibition in The Custom House Gallery, Leith, alongside work from SSBA members. We have come together with over 30 other countries to create an exhibition that spans the globe through Botanical Art Worldwide’s digital outreach and our exhibition.

Botanica Scotia, Join artist Coral Prosser on the World Wide Day of Botanical Art, 18th May 2025. Demonstrating watercolour on vellum

Join artist, Janis Bain, on the Worldwide day of Botanical Art, 18th May 25.
Demonstrating watercolour on velum.

1 – 4pm, Custom House Gallery, Leith – botanicascotia.uk

Botanica Scotia, Join artist Coral Prosser on the World Wide Day of Botanical Art, 18th May 2025. Demonstrating sketching and watercolour

Join artist, Coral Prosser, on the Worldwide Day of Botanical Art, 18th May 25.
Demonstrating sketching & watercolour.

10am – 3pm, Custom House Gallery, Leith – botanicascotia.uk

Come and celebrate biodiversity in the crops that have been closely associated with the human species over thousands of years. Many heritage species and varieties are currently only cultivated in small quantities by specialist growers on a limited scale. Can this exhibition inspire you to look at using or even growing more unusual diverse crops?

Our exhibition shows crops grown locally in Scotland. Come and talk to the artists and find out about their journey to illustrate heritage crops in the challenging weather conditions of 2024. You can also watch demonstrations and find out about botanical illustration and what goes into making beautiful plant paintings.

If you would like to purchase a painting, please get in touch with info@botanicascotia.uk

Please note: Paintings will be on display at the V&A Dundee until the end of July, so a pickup after that date can be arranged.